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flimsy

n. a thin strong lightweight translucent paper used especially for making carbon copies

onionskin, flimsy

n. a thin strong lightweight translucent paper used especially for making carbon copies

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flimsy

adj. very thin and insubstantial; "thin paper"; "flimsy voile"; "light summer dresses"

cardboard, flimsy

adj. resembling cardboard especially in flimsiness; "apartments with cardboard walls"

unconvincing, flimsy

adj. not convincing; "unconvincing argument"; "as unconvincing as a forced smile"

flimsy, fragile, slight, tenuous, thin

adj. lacking substance or significance; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"; a fragile claim to fame"

thin, lean

adj. lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare

angular, angulate

adj. having angles or an angular shape

fragile

adj. vulnerably delicate; "she has the fragile beauty of youth"

delicate, fragile, frail

adj. easily broken or damaged or destroyed; "a kite too delicate to fly safely"; "fragile porcelain plates"; "fragile old bones"; "a frail craft"

capillary, hairlike

adj. long and slender with a very small internal diameter; "a capillary tube"

light

adj. very thin and insubstantial; "thin paper"; "light summer dresses"

filamentous, filiform, filamentlike, threadlike, thready

adj. thin in diameter; resembling a thread

tenuous

adj. very thin in gauge or diameter; "a tenuous thread"

hyperfine

adj. extremely fine or thin, as in a spectral line split into two or more components; "hyperfine structure"

papery

adj. thin and paperlike; "papery leaves"; "wasps that make nests of papery material"

sleazy

adj. of cloth; thin and loosely woven; "the coat has a sleazy lining"

bad

adj. below average in quality or performance; "a bad chess player"; "a bad recital"

base

adj. debased; not genuine; "an attempt to eliminate the base coinage"

bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny

adj. of very poor quality; flimsy

cheapjack, shoddy, tawdry

adj. cheap and shoddy; "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist

coarse, common

adj. of low or inferior quality or value; "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population"

coarsened

adj. made coarse or crude by lack of skill

commercial, commercial-grade

adj. of the kind or quality used in commerce; average or inferior; "commercial grade of beef"; "commercial oxalic acid"

deplorable, execrable, miserable, woeful, wretched

adj. of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"

less

adj. (nonstandard in some uses but often idiomatic with measure phrases) fewer; "less than three weeks"; "no less than 50 people attended"; "in 25 words or less"

low-grade

adj. of inferior quality

mediocre

adj. poor to middling in quality; "there have been good and mediocre and bad artists"

ropey, ropy

adj. (British informal) very poor in quality; "ropey food"; "a ropey performance"

scrawny, scrubby, stunted

adj. inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees"

second-class

adj. of inferior status or quality; "a second-class citizen"; "second-class accommodations"

third-rate

adj. of lesser quality than second-rate

utility(a), utility-grade

adj. used of beef; usable but inferior

anemic, anaemic

adj. lacking vigor or energy; "an anemic attempt to hit the baseball"

adynamic, asthenic, debilitated, enervated

adj. lacking strength or vigor

breakaway

adj. having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude; "a breakaway faction"

faint, feeble

adj. lacking strength or vigor; "damning with faint praise"; "faint resistance"; "feeble efforts"; "a feeble voice"

feeble, lame

adj. pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness; "a feeble excuse"; "a lame argument"

slight, insubstantial

adj. having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"

jerry-built, shoddy

adj. of inferior workmanship and materials; "mean little jerry-built houses"

little, small

adj. (of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice"

namby-pamby, gutless, spineless, wishy-washy

adj. weak in willpower, courage or vitality

pale

adj. not full or rich; "high, pale, pure and lovely song"

wan

adj. lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness; "a wan smile"

puny

adj. inferior in strength or significance; "a puny physique"; "puny excuses"

thin

adj. (of sound) lacking resonance or volume; "a thin feeble cry"

vulnerable

adj. capable of being wounded or hurt; "vulnerable parts of the body"

washy

adj. overly diluted; thin and insipid; "washy coffee"; "watery milk"; "weak tea"

convincing

adj. causing one to believe the truth of something; "a convincing story"; "a convincing manner"

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